Parnashavari

Description of Parnashavari

Parnashavari or “Tribal Woman Clothed in Leaves” is an important deity in Buddhism who offers effective protection against outbreaks of epidemics. Her leaf clothing shows her intimate connection to nature, from which she receives her healing skills. Her leaf skirt blends seamlessly with the environment and provides a ready supply of her cures and is embellished with fruit, flowers, and feathers. She has a white serpent around her neck and also wears hair ribbons with small snakes. Parnashavari is armed with a simple ax (parasu) with a long handle and a short blade to harvest fruits, herbs, and medicinal plants.

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Buddhist Gods

The Buddhist pantheon comprises hundreds of Gods and Goddesses. They are intended to illustrate the multiple aspects of enlightenment, including its wrathful and furious sides, as well as its peaceful and beneficial aspects. In Mahayana Buddhism, gods, goddesses, and other spiritual beings play a much bigger role than in Theravada Buddhism. They symbolize the energies, forces, and entities that surround and fill human life. They also mirror the human spirit's deeper depths, reflecting attributes that can be awakened through spiritual practice. Voluptuous tree spirits, maternal nurturers, elevated knowledge figures, benevolent healers, potent protectors, cosmic mothers of liberation, and dancing female Buddhas are all part of the pantheon. Childbirth, agriculture, fortune, longevity, art, music, knowledge, love, magic, and occult rituals are all overseen by gods, goddesses, and other spiritual beings. Some of them protect against diseases, snakebites, demons, curses, untimely death, and all other fatal dangers. There are also gods, goddesses, and other spiritual beings that aid practitioners in their quest for knowledge, mental cleansing, higher rebirth, and complete spiritual enlightenment.